Those screenshots are very old news. They also look terrible (as much a fan as I am of D2 and Blizzard North I still realize that), but I'm sure that the raving Diablo 2 / Blizzard North horde will enter this topic soon and state it looks awesome. Discussion been done before as well.

I think Diablo 3 looks fine as it is now ... People are saying it didn't feel "Dark and Gothic" ... I think it had plenty of Dark Elements, especially Act 1 and to some extent 3 and 4 were quite Dark (Look and Feel)... The only real element it lost was a "Gothic" look, which IMO isn't really that big of a deal.

The Art Style of Diablo 3 now is far superior to those old screenshots imo, however D2 and D1 still have a certain appeal within their own "Styles".

However if that D3 wasn't going to have a Online AH, Boring Plot and Crappy Dungeon and Gearing System, then I'd take it any day regardless of Art Style.

Those screenshots are very old news. They also look terrible (as much a fan as I am of D2 and Blizzard North I still realize that), but I'm sure that the raving Diablo 2 / Blizzard North horde will enter this topic soon and state it looks awesome. Discussion been done before as well.

Comparing images of an unfinished game seven years ago to those of a completely polished game released this year is pretty unfair. Of course the graphics of the latter/completed game are better. Just the same as the graphics in SC2 are far superior to SC1.

If the plain logic of this thought process leads you to believe I'm a "raving" D2 fan, then I think you ought to reconsider who's the lunitic here.

It would have been a really bad choice in my personal opinion to go with a free moving camera, or any angle other than one simulating an isometric camera. That's how Diablo and Diablo 2 were, and just because you can make a game with a free moving camera (Dungeon Siege, for example), doesn't mean you should.

The areas in those screenshots seem so vast and empty. Diablo has always had a claustrophobic feel, and those pictures just don't convey that. Also, the color scheme is just horrible for a Diablo game.

Even if they had "polished" that style, they would have ended up with an inferior product artistically and as far as the atmosphere goes. That's what I think anyway.

things worked out better than we had planned • now everything's ruined, yeah

I think it looks better than what we actually got. The graphics are worse but the whole thing looks more athmospheric. That game might actually have had the Diablo feel that is (for me) entirely missing in D3.

Comparing images of an unfinished game seven years ago to those of a completely polished game released this year is pretty unfair. Of course the graphics of the latter/completed game are better. Just the same as the graphics in SC2 are far superior to SC1.

This, it's so many years apart that it's pointless to compare them at this stage, especially as one was under development and one is finished product as well.